. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 73. The population can be kept going from the eggs laid by the queen after mating before her removal. At the end of the season these miniature hives are brought close together gradu- ally, all the bees united on proper brood combs and fed down for wintering. {To be continued.^. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one tide of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, no
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 73. The population can be kept going from the eggs laid by the queen after mating before her removal. At the end of the season these miniature hives are brought close together gradu- ally, all the bees united on proper brood combs and fed down for wintering. {To be continued.^. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one tide of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but at a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. BEE-KEEPING EXPERIENCES. {Continued from page 150.) After this four more swarms came out, were caught and put into new homes, and everything seemed to be going on well. I started to make a calculation as to how much money I should be able to obtain from my coming honey-harvest. Five strong colonies of bees, all healthy and industrious! I was not at this time sew- ing shirts for soldiers, but knitting mufflers for them in view of the coming winter, and many a pleasant summer afternoon I spent, seated near my imma- ture apiary, clicking the knitting needles to the humming and buzzing of the bees. They seemed to know that I had nothing but friendly feelings towards them, and never a sting did I get the whole summer through. I was the only person in the village who had bees, and several times one or another of the villagers would say to me, "Your bees are working well. Miss; they were all about my old skeps this morning, carrying off all they could ; Towards the end of August I noticed that there was something wrong. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may
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